Subj : Re: Famous Last Words
To   : Daryl Stout
From : George Pope
Date : Thu Apr 29 2021 10:43:52

 >                      FAMOUS LAST WORDS
 >  
 > "I know good mushrooms when I see them!"
 >  
 > "Don't worry, the ones that bark a lot don't bite."

Billy: Is your dog friendly?
Bob: yup
Billy: *pets dog*
Dog: bites & shreds his hand
Billy: I thought you said your dog don't bite!
Bob: I did; t'ain't my dog there.

 > "Bungee jumping is perfectly safe.  Here, I'll show you."

Q: How often do you replace the bungee ropes?
A: Every time they break, Ma'am.

 > "Hah, this curve is easy to drive through."

You accelerate into a curve, right?


 > "Don't worry, I took gun safety"

Then why are looking down the barrel after you cleaned it & put it back
together?  I gotta run -- I'm too dark-skinned to be near here when you off
yourself.

 > "What's this button?"

Button: "Press here"
*presses*
computer: "to activate, release to detonate."

 > "You dare me?"

Me, as a wee lad, being dared to do stupid things:
Yeah? I double dog dare YOU, no-backsies.
Dares go first
Show me what you mean, I don't get it.
*they do*

Me: walks away murmuring "dumbass"

 > "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers."
 >        Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM (around 1948)

My fave no clue quotation; apparently it dod't quite go like that; he was
referring only to IBM Super Mainframes (gymnasium sized monstrosities)

A lady friend on a local BBS told e how she was tyold, in grade 5 that
eventually everone will have a computer in their home (teacher obviously 
means as sizes shrink); my friend's immedate thought was, "As if everyone's
going to build a gym-sized room just for a machine that can print 'Hello,
World!'"

The perspective you & I have, eh? I can recall marveling at JPGs that MOVED
(GIFs) then hi-res self drawing art. . . & moving desktop icons with sound!
(mini Videos, really)

I started at 2400 baud, now I have 50+ mbps!

DOS 4,01 to Windows 10.0. . . what a expletive-decorated journey that has
been!

I remember DOS 6 & the end of the help files being all loaded in to RAM as a
TSR! & the original disk doubler that Microsoft stole for DOS 6.2 & was 
forced by a judge to remove and issue DOS 6.22 (when M$ & their million 
dollar lawyers lose a case, you KNOW the theft was bad)

Fast forward to anti-monopoly trial against Microsoft bundling Office &
Windows.

We supposed Gates walked out of that courtroom, after being ordered to split
Office & their OS(Windoze) into separate companies, asked out loud, "So, this
means I now own TWO monopolies?"

Watching changes in R&D & knowing what fueled them. . .

faster processors & more powerful video cards = video gamers
bigger hard drives, faster internet, & bigger/brighter monitors = porn fans

Now all the development is on phones, & nobody uses a desktop any more except
me, that I know of. . .

Most don't even use a tablet -- all phone (mini microtablets); I laugh as 
they fumble & make mistakes because they can't "Drop to DOS & do it right"

DOS IST GUT!! (not a joke)






 >  
 > "The bomb will never go off.  I speak as an expert in explosives."
 >        Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project
 >  
 > "This fellow Charles Lindburg will never make it.  He's doomed."
 >        Harry Guggenheim, millionaire aviation enthusiast
 >  
 > "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
 >        Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University,
 >          (five days before the Crash of 1929)
 >  
 > "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
 >  
 > "God himself could not sink this ship."
 >        Anonymous Titanic Deck Hand
 >  
 > "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific
 > advances."
 >  
 > "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
 >        Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Patent Office, 1899.
 >  
 > "Ha!  They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."

 > 'And for the tourist who really wants to get away
 > from it all - safaris in Vietnam' - Newsweek predicting
 > popular holidays for the late 1960's
 >  
 > 'ALL THE PASSENGERS ARE SAFE' - Lancashire Evening Post
 > headline on their report of the Titanic sinking.
 >  
 > 'Television won't last. Its a flash in the pan' - Mary
 > Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948.
 >  
 > 'The Beatles? They're on the wane' - the Duke of Edinburgh
 > in Canada 1965.  They went on to produce five albums and
 > eleven singles, most of which got to number One.
 >  
 > 'Radio has no future' - Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society,
 > 1890-5.
 >  
 > 'Heavier than air flying machines are impossible' - Lord Kelvin.
 > President of the Royal Society,1890-5.
 >  
 > 'X-Rays will prove to be a hoax'-Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal
 > Society, 1890-5.

 > "About this 'Liberty or Death' business, Mr. Henry. Isn't there some
 > reasonable position in between?"
 > --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32
 >  * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (1:19/33)

Your friend,

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Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
--- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
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